Comfort My People

Mary Ruth Cody McMorris grew up in Houston, Texas and graduated from a local business college in 1950. Her business career which began as an executive secretary grew to become an executive assistant with the stock brokerage firms of Dempsey-Tegeler & Co. and Rowles Winston & Co. in Corporate Finance. Her work experience and study led to a promising career as a paralegal with Fulbright & Jaworski law firm and The Dow Chemical Company’s Legal Department. Throughout her life in Houston, Mary Ruth and her family were faithful members of First Presbyterian Church of Houston, where she grew in her love and faith in Jesus Christ, serving as a Sunday school teacher and Bible teacher in Circles of Presbyterian Women. At this point Mary Ruth felt a Call by the Holy Spirit to ＂go into full time service＂ for the Lord. After consulting with her pastors, she retired from her work as a Paralegal and was hired by her own church, beginning a new adventure in the Caring Ministry there. Comfort My People is not only a brief reflection of her work with the church, but it is a personal testimony of how the Christian faith is relevant in today’s chaotic world. Mary Ruth shares some of her heartfelt prayers as well as a poignant, contemporary story of how the Holy Spirit has guided, protected and comforted her family throughout a lifetime: in times of the country’s depression, war and crisis, in joy, as well as suffering and in sorrow. It is her true, authentic testimony of God’s unfailing love at work in us as individual believers and in the nations of the world today.